Tebhaga movement

The Tebhaga movement was an independence campaign launched by the Communist Party of India's All India Kisan Sabha peasant front in the Bengal region of India from 1946 to 1947. The peasants were upset with the unfair law that forced sharecroppers to give half of their harvest to their landlords, and they fought to reduce the share to a third; the peasants, led by men such as Subodhi Roy, dug tunnels underground so that they could emerge near the granaries to recover their stolen harvests. The movement saw some violence between the wealthy peasant landowners and the poorer peasants, and the Muslim League agreed to reduce the landowners' share to a third of all crops. The movement was one of the last nails in the coffin of the British Raj, which ended in 1947.